Micah Cohen
Screenwriter
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I have no Netflixes for this evening, and I feel like it's my duty to get everyone's attention off the fate of the poor little doggie, so let me ask this question:
What do the "Customer Locator Codes" now found on the back of "postpaid return mail" envelopes actually do?
For years it has been a habit of mine that I collect all the stupid junk mail -- credit card offers and magazine subscription come-ons, etc -- in a big pile and every once in a while I'll go thru it and make a big pile of the post paid return envelopes that are always included in credit card offers and magazine subscription come-ons. I stuff the post paid return envelopes with the (anonymous) marketing loot that is also found inside the junk mail, and I put the whole pile back in the mail box the next day.
I figure, if they send this stuff out and then have to pay for it (junk mailers only pay return postage if the post paid envelope goes into the mail), maybe they will... I don't know, find god or something and stop junk mailing me. I know it's pointless, but I do like the idea of making them pay for the postage for nothing.
Now, I've noticed that some of the envelopes have ominous-looking bar-codes on the backs, "Customer Locator Codes"! But, the codes are all pre-printed. And, I've seen other people's junk mail, and their codes are exactly the same as the codes on my junk mail. So, the codes are really meaningless. They are just there to scare us! They are just there to eff with people like me, people who send back the empty post paid envelopes, causing the junk mailer to have to pay for postage for nothing! These meaningless bits of ominously labeled bar codes are just there to intimidate us into not sending the post paid envelopes back empty!
Or... are they?
I'm in trouble, aren't I?
MC
What do the "Customer Locator Codes" now found on the back of "postpaid return mail" envelopes actually do?
For years it has been a habit of mine that I collect all the stupid junk mail -- credit card offers and magazine subscription come-ons, etc -- in a big pile and every once in a while I'll go thru it and make a big pile of the post paid return envelopes that are always included in credit card offers and magazine subscription come-ons. I stuff the post paid return envelopes with the (anonymous) marketing loot that is also found inside the junk mail, and I put the whole pile back in the mail box the next day.
I figure, if they send this stuff out and then have to pay for it (junk mailers only pay return postage if the post paid envelope goes into the mail), maybe they will... I don't know, find god or something and stop junk mailing me. I know it's pointless, but I do like the idea of making them pay for the postage for nothing.
Now, I've noticed that some of the envelopes have ominous-looking bar-codes on the backs, "Customer Locator Codes"! But, the codes are all pre-printed. And, I've seen other people's junk mail, and their codes are exactly the same as the codes on my junk mail. So, the codes are really meaningless. They are just there to scare us! They are just there to eff with people like me, people who send back the empty post paid envelopes, causing the junk mailer to have to pay for postage for nothing! These meaningless bits of ominously labeled bar codes are just there to intimidate us into not sending the post paid envelopes back empty!
Or... are they?
I'm in trouble, aren't I?
MC